{"title":"Crítica de Martín Rojo & Pujolar (2020): Claves para entender el multilingüismo contemporáneo","authors":"Luci Nussbaum","doi":"10.1075/sic.00087.nus","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00087.nus","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42959185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Isabel Medina Soler, María Cecilia Ainciburu
{"title":"Phonic mitigation markers for disagreement in interviews of university learners of Spanish as foreign language","authors":"María Isabel Medina Soler, María Cecilia Ainciburu","doi":"10.1075/sic.20022.med","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20022.med","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In previous studies of the mitigators that occur when a speaker wants to show disagreement with his or her interlocutor, morphosyntactic markers occupy the most relevant part. In oral communication, however, phonic markers play a central role. This research presents the analysis of these markers in a corpus of interviews with B1 level university exchange students (CEFR). The aim is to check for the presence of phonic attenuation markers when foreign students express a divergent opinion in Spanish from that expressed by the native speaker. The analysis leads to a categorization of these markers and attempts to provide empirical basis for a better understanding of the phonic markers in the academic interlanguage.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48923322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Michnowicz, R. Ronquest, Bailey Armbrister, N. Chisholm, Rebecca S. Green, Lindsey Bull, A. Elkins
{"title":"Perceptions of inclusive language in the Spanish of the Southeast","authors":"J. Michnowicz, R. Ronquest, Bailey Armbrister, N. Chisholm, Rebecca S. Green, Lindsey Bull, A. Elkins","doi":"10.1075/sic.00084.mic","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00084.mic","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study examines the perceptions of inclusive language among first- and second-generation Spanish speakers residing in North Carolina, USA, based on survey data collected from 337 speakers by undergraduates. The survey examines familiarity with innovative inclusive language forms (including -@, -x, and -e), as well as opinions about different forms (including standard morphology forms such as masculine default and noun doubling – i.e., chicos y chicas), and reported use of inclusive forms. A majority of participants expressed negative opinions of innovative forms, and very few reported actually using them in their speech. Acceptance varied based not only on participant social characteristics, but also on the morphology and the context in which the form is used. Exceptions to these trends, as well as the possible future development of inclusive language forms, receive additional attention. Research methodologies with undergraduates are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46327894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spanglish and Tex-Mex in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas","authors":"Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Shannon McCrocklin, Alejandra Tiburcio","doi":"10.1075/sic.20027.rod","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20027.rod","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The social meaning of language is embedded in a cultural system of ideas that circulates throughout the historicity of peoples in contact. Border areas are useful for studying the permeability of category constructions, including language boundaries and fluidity of identities. The present study reports survey data from 168 Spanish-English bilinguals in the border region of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas in the ways they define ‘Spanglish’ vis-à-vis ‘Tex-Mex’ as two distinct ways of speaking. In explaining the contact forms that each label represents and ideologies that have given rise to this distinction, results are discussed using iconization and fractal recursivity (Irvine and Gal 2000) and enregisterment (Agha 2005). Overall, results indicate that for those who make a distinction between Spanglish and Tex-Mex, Spanglish is valorized as more legitimate, whereas Tex-Mex is seen as a localized style of Spanglish also considered more informal.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46022145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social perceptions of /f/ fortition in Guatemalan Spanish","authors":"Brandon O. Baird","doi":"10.1075/sic.20011.bai","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20011.bai","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Research on Guatemalan Spanish has increasingly shown the effects of contact with Mayan languages. However,\u0000 whereas most studies have focused on the structural outcomes of Spanish-Mayan contact, fewer studies have analyzed how native\u0000 Guatemalans socially perceive these features and, by extension, those who employ them. This study presents an analysis of one\u0000 contact feature of Guatemalan Spanish: the fortition of the voiceless labiodental fricative, or /f/ > [p]. Results of a matched\u0000 guise of 116 native listeners of Guatemalan Spanish reveal that [p] guises index speakers as Maya and elicit more negative overt\u0000 and covert attitudes than [f] guises. Furthermore, participants who self-identified as Maya were more likely to rate [p] guises as\u0000 less prestigious than participants who did not identify as Maya, indicating that the Maya participants may display outgroup\u0000 favoritism in order to disassociate themselves with the discrimination and racism that often accompanies their racial identity in\u0000 Guatemala.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42979657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Análisis estadístico del contacto entre lenguas: El caso de las grafías y en la documentación en castellano de Mallorca (siglo XVIII)","authors":"Ruth Miguel Franco, David Sánchez","doi":"10.1075/sic.21005.mig","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.21005.mig","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Los documentos mallorquines en castellano del siglo XVIII muestran una distinción entre y más estable que otros textos producidos de la Península Ibérica. El objetivo de este artículo es examinar la distribución de estas grafías mediante una aproximación multidisciplinar que combina un análisis diacrónico y sincrónico con métodos estadísticos, y tratar de ponerlas en relación con rasgos de la variedad actual de catalán hablada en la isla. De esta forma, se ofrece una interpretación fonética que contribuye a la caracterización de la variedad histórica del español de Mallorca y que puede ayudar a profundizar en la comprensión de los fenómenos de variación y cambio lingüísticos en una situación de contacto.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47914925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mood alternation in Mexican Spanish in Georgia","authors":"Kathryn P. Bove, Philip P. Limerick","doi":"10.1075/sic.20043.bov","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20043.bov","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The current study analyzes mood alternation in Spanish spoken in Georgia among first-generation Mexican immigrants. Using sociolinguistic interview data, tokens of the subjunctive and indicative in dependent clauses were examined, particularly in the following syntactic contexts: depender, aunque, me gusta que, no porque, quizás, tal vez, and no sé si/ cómo/dónde/qué. We argue that mood selection in the contexts under study is determined by the evaluation of the proposition in the dependent clause. We then use this data to inform theories of possible world semantics (i.e., Anand and Hacquard 2013; Giannakidou and Mari 2021; Villalta 2008) to better understand mood alternation. Moreover, while many U.S. Spanish varieties may demonstrate what Silva-Corvalán (1994, 91) refers to as “a reduced system that made it more difficult to distinguish between more or less possible situations in a hypothetical world,” we show that cases of alternation in the present data still differentiate speaker meaning and evaluation.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48131018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variation in Andorran Spanish past perfectives","authors":"James Hawkey","doi":"10.1075/sic.21012.haw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.21012.haw","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Romance varieties differ in their usage of preterit and present perfect verb tenses. Both are past perfectives,\u0000 but whereas Portuguese uses the preterit in most contexts, spoken French prefers the present perfect. Peninsular Spanish lies\u0000 between the two, though evidence indicates that the present perfect is becoming the default past perfective (Schwenter and Torres Cacoullos 2008) in a process of ‘aoristic drift’ (Squartini and Bertinetto 2000). How does speaker multilingualism affect this? Semi-structured interviews\u0000 were conducted with second-generation members of the Portuguese diaspora in Andorra. We might expect native competence in\u0000 Portuguese to inhibit aoristic drift in Spanish, since contact has been shown to affect past perfective verb tense in other\u0000 Romance varieties (Gili Gaya 1993; Hawkey\u0000 2020). Contrary to expectations, participants demonstrated aoristic drift. Dense and multiplex migrant networks are,\u0000 however, shown to favour the maintenance of vernacular norms (Milroy 1980), including\u0000 generalising the function of the present perfect.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48117314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construcciones exclamativas de rechazo","authors":"C. F. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1075/sic.21026.rod","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.21026.rod","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 La expresión Qué A ni qué B constituye enunciados exclamativos que aparecen en intervenciones\u0000 reactivas como comentarios de rechazo. Presenta variantes en su segundo miembro, algunas de ellas son términos minimizadores o\u0000 malsonantes, con diferente grado de intensificación. Constituyen una construcción semifijada en la que se unen la descortesía del\u0000 acto de habla de rechazo, el uso de formas malsonantes y la emoción inherente a la modalidad expresiva.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48954495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La negociación de la autenticidad en el lenguaje dialógico del turismo digital","authors":"Maria Vittoria Calvi, Francisca Suau-Jiménez","doi":"10.1075/sic.21011.sua","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.21011.sua","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Este artículo se propone realizar un análisis socio-discursivo de cómo se construye y se negocia la autenticidad\u0000 en el discurso del turismo, asumiendo el acercamiento imparable que ha tenido lugar hacia la figura del cliente (Austin 2009) a través de un fenómeno comunicativo esencial como es la dialogicidad. Este\u0000 discurso ha ido encarnando progresivamente una autenticidad negociada (Cohen\u0000 1988), que va ajustándose a variables sociales, como ocurre con la pandemia por COVID-19, pero que incluye igualmente\u0000 variables culturales. Utilizamos 100 muestras de oralización dialógica en español e inglés de varios cibergéneros (páginas web\u0000 institucionales y redes sociales de turismo) que apoyan nuestra argumentación. Pretendemos ofrecer una visión contrastiva sobre la\u0000 negociación de la autenticidad discursiva y de las emociones como elemento central en el turismo digital, según el trinomio\u0000 turismo-sociedad-lenguaje, que permita una mejor comprensión de la tendencia comunicativa social actual con propósito\u0000 mercantilista.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46104615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}